China Diplomacy Key to Easing Rare Earth Crisis, Sona CEO Says
'In the short term, unless we have a kind of rapprochement with China and get magnet supply flowing, there are limited options for damage control,' Vivek Vikram Singh, chief executive officer, Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd. told Bloomberg News.
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